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2013

April 11, 2013 - APS Applauds President Obama's Fiscal Year 2014 Budget for Science

April 10, 2013 - APS Commends President Obama’s Plan for ‘Regional Centers’ to Train STEM Teachers

February 13, 2013 - APS Applauds President Obama’s support of R&D in State of the Union Address

2012

December 5, 2012 - Sequestration Would Hurt Science and Engineering Careers, Harm Economic Growth

October 15, 2012 - Award for Improving Undergraduate Physics Education Recipients

October 9, 2012 - APS Fellows Serge Haroche and David Wineland win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics for "for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems".

August 10, 2012 - Blewett Fellows for 2012

February 14, 2012 - APS Applauds President Obama's Fiscal Year 2013 Budget

February 7, 2012 - APS Applauds White House PCAST Report Calling for Improving Science Education

January 25, 2012 - Commending President Obama's Commitment to Robust Funding of Scientific Research in State of the Union Address State of the Union Address 2012

January 17, 2012 - Presidential Enrico Fermi Award Winners

2011

October 5, 2011 - Daniel Shechtman’s revolutionary discovery of quasiperiodic crystals (quasicrystals) wins 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

October 4, 2011 - Three American astrophysicists win Nobel Prize "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae"

August 5, 2011-Debt Deal Bad for Science

August 3, 2011 - Blewett Fellows for 2011

June 29, 2011-R&D Crucial to Manufacturing

May 9, 2011 - DAC Assessment Release

May 4, 2011 - APS Issues Call for Papers for Physical Review X Journal

April 13, 2011 - Continuing Resolution Budget Flat Funds Scientific Research Programs

April 7, 2011 - Government Shutdown Would Jeopardize National Scientific Research Facilities

February 18, 2011 - Energy Critical Elements Report: Securing Materials for Emerging Technologies

February 15, 2011 - American Physical Society to Adopt Creative Commons Licensing and Publish Open Access Articles and Journals

February 14, 2011 - APS Concurs With Science Emphasis in President Obama's Fiscal Year 2012 Budget

February 9, 2011 - APS Online Journals Available Free in U.S. High Schools

January 26, 2011 - APS Commends President Obama’s Commitment to Investment in Scientific Research During State of the Union Address

January 19, 2011 - APS Announces Physical Review X, an Open Access Journal covering Physics and its Application to Related Fields

2010

December 21, 2010 - APS Applauds Congress for Reauthorizing America COMPETES Bill

November 16, 2010 - Developing Energy Storage Technologies Among Crucial Steps Toward Increasing Renewable Electricity on Nation’s Grid

November 8, 2010 - Lasers produce the first Hawking radiation ever detected

October 12, 2010 - APS Comments on Harold Lewis’ Resignation of his Society Membership

October 11, 2010 - Swimming microorganisms stir things up, and the LHC takes over

September 24, 2010 - APS Urges U.S. Senate to Approve America COMPETES Bill based on Updated ‘Rising Above the Gathering Storm’ Report

September 23, 2010 - Nobel Laureate Physicist Wieman Confirmed as Associate Director for Science at OSTP

September 10, 2010 - Election results including passage of proposed Constitutional amendment

August 23, 2010 - Powerful new way to control magnetism: Colossal magnetoelectricity points the way to ultra-dense data storage

August 16, 2010 - Experiments offer tantalizing clues as to why matter prevails in the universe

August 9, 2010 - Single cell injections: New technique allows injections into individual cells

July 28, 2010 - APS Online Journals Available Free in U.S. Public Libraries

July 22, 2010 - Recipients of APS Physics 2010 M. Hildred Blewett Scholarship Prize

July 15, 2010 - Ironing out the causes of wrinkles: Physicists find clues to the origin and evolution of wrinkles in thin sheets

July 12, 2010 - Extra large galactic survey puts limits on ultralight particles: Neutrinos are likely half as massive as previous estimates suggested

July 6, 2010 - APS and CERN make LHC articles Open Access

June 29, 2010 - APS Petitions NRC for Rule Change

June 24, 2010- Greater Energy Research Needed

June 22, 2010 - Early results from the world's brightest X-ray source: SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source probes nitrogen molecules

June 21, 2010 - A crack in the case for supersolids: Reports of supersolid helium may have been premature

June 14, 2010 - Recalculating Cell Sensing: Mobile cells are more sensitive than once thought

June 1, 2010 - America COMPETES Reauthorization

June 1, 2010 - Doping graphene: New graphene-based electronics could take a page out of the silicon electronics book

May 24, 2010 - Pressure testing tiny cell samples: new approach to measuring the elastic properties of cells

May 17, 2010 - Stripes offer clues to superconductivity

May 14, 2010 - APS Calls for Swift Action on COMPETES bill

May 3, 2010 - Densest dice packing and computing with molecules: Tetrahedral dice pack tighter than any other shape, and a single molecule can calculate thousands of times faster than a PC

April 26, 2010 - How shape-memory materials remember: New study may lead to improved smart materials

April 21, 2010 - PhysTEC Announces New Funded Sites

April 6, 2010 - Nuclear missing link created at last: Superheavy element 117 fills in the final gap in the list of observed elements up to element 118

April 5, 2010 - Combing a qubit: Optical frequency combs could tame quantum bits

March 22, 2010 - Helium rain on Jupiter: New research suggests that helium rain could be washing neon out of Jupiter's upper atmosphere

March 14, 2010 - Superconductors on the nanoscale: Controlling structure on the nanoscale could lead to better superconductors

March 1, 2010 - How to see through opaque materials - seeing through paint, paper, and other opaque materials

March 1, 2010 - Greener memory from random motion Heat helps in low power data storage scheme

February 21, 2010 - Quantum leap for phonon lasers Physicists take a big step toward practical sound-based laser analogues

February 18, 2010 - Downsizing the Nuclear Arsenal while Keeping the Stockpile Safe and Secure

February 10, 2010 - Extra large carbon: Heaviest halo nucleus discovered

February 1, 2011 - APS Commends FY11 Budget

January 19, 2010 - Turning down the noise in quantum data storage

January 11, 2010 - Quantum entanglement achieved in solid-state circuitry

January 4, 2010 - All APS journal content from 1893 to present is now hosted on a single platform

2009

December 10, 2009 - APS Comments on Stolen CRU Climate Files

December 7, 2009 -Super cool atom thermometer

November 10, 2009- APS Rejects Proposal to replace 2007 Climate Change Statement

October 19, 2009 - Making monster waves: Physicists are discovering ways to build rogue waves out of light

October 12, 2009 - Growing geodesic carbon nanodomes: Tiny carbon islands bubble up at the center to form nanoscopic geodesic domes

October 6, 2009 - Three industrial physicists win Nobel Prize for work with fiber optics and semiconductors

October 5, 2009 - Building a better qubit: Combining 6 photons together results in highly robust qubits

August 20, 2009 - PhysTEC receives $6.5 million award

August 19, 2009 - APS Comments on Examination of Climate Change Statement

July 21, 2009 - Women Physicists Win 2009 Blewett Scholarships

July 2, 2009 - Improving Physical Review Letters

June 23, 2009 - APS lauds Task Force Brochure on Scientific Research

June 15, 2009 - Science! Working for America Stickers

June 3, 2009 - Speaker Pelosi Receives Legislator of the Year Award

May 11, 2009 - Harvard-Smithsonian Research Physicist Dr. Kate Kirby Named New APS Executive Officer

April 28, 2009 - APS Commends President Obama’s Commitment to Greater Investment in Scientific Research, Innovation and Education

April 22, 2009- APS Does Not Endorse Cold Fusion Experimental Findings Featured on "60 Minutes"

March 20, 2009 -- Holdren, Lubchenco Confirmed

March 13, 2009- APS Applauds Senate Passage of FY09 Omnibus Bill

March 10, 2009 - APS Lauds President Obama's Scientific Memo

February 14, 2009 - APS Applauds Congress and President Obama For Critical Investments in Science Infrastructure, Instruments And Energy Research In American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

January 27, 2009 - APS President Applauds House Leadership for Science Funding in Stimulus Bill

January 14, 2009 - Steve Chu Stresses Energy Efficiency During Confirmation Hearing

2008

December 20, 2008: Presidential Awards for Early Career Scientists and Engineers include 8 APS Members

December 19, 2008: APS Fellow Harvard Physicist John P. Holdren Named Science Adviser and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

December 11, 2008 - Nobel Laureate Physicist Steve Chu To Be Named Next U.S. Energy Secretary

Nov. 7, 2008 - U.S. Physicists Urge Obama to Invest in Energy Efficiency

October 7, 2008 - 2008 Physics Nobel for Broken Symmetries

September 16, 2008 - Energy Future - Think Efficiency Report Release

July 22, 2008 - APS Reaffirms Climate Change Position

June 27, 2008 - Senate Approves Supplemental

May 28, 2008 -- Senate Votes to Include Critical Science Funding

May 6, 2008 -- Nobel Laureates Call for Emergency Science Funding

April 13, 2008 - Dissident Chinese Physicist to Receive the 2008 Andrei Sakharov Prize at the American Physical Society’s April Meeting in St. Louis

April 7, 2008 - View From the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos

February 16, 2008 - APS/AAAS Study: Improving Nuclear Forensics

February 8, 2008 - FY ’09 Budget Gives Big Boost to Basic Research

January 21, 2008 - FY ’08 Budget Harms U.S. Plan to Solve Energy Crisis

2007

December 19, 2007 - APS Urges Congress and White House to Revisit Fiscal Year 2008 Science Funding in January

October 24, 2007 - U.S. Senate Gives Science Education and Research Programs Big Boost with Approval of $55 Billion Spending Bill for Fiscal Year 2008

October 9, 2007 - 2007 Physics Nobel Awarded for Hard Drive Technology

October 4, 2007 - Supporters of America COMPETES Bill Praise Its Passage, Urge Federal Funding

August 21, 2007 - Web Writer for APS Wins Acoustical Society Writing Award

August 3, 2007 - Congress Approves Landmark Bill Investing in Research, Math and Science Programs to Keep U.S. Globally Competitive

June 29, 2007 - Sen. Byron Dorgan Tackles Nation's Energy Woes by Supporting Bill That Increases Basic Research

June 7, 2007 - House Appropriations Committee Approves Congressman Visclosky’s Bill Addressing High Gas Prices and Air Pollution

May 21, 2007 - Pain at the Pump Relieved By Scientific Research of Next-Generation Ethanol

May 2, 2007 - Workshop to Focus on Doubling the Number of Women in Physics in the Next 15 Years

April 16, 2007 - APS April Meeting Press Conferences

April 15, 2007 - APS April Meeting

April 11, 2007 - Public Lecture: NASCAR Science is Coming to Florida

March 5, 2007 - Largest Physics Meeting of the Year, in Denver

March 5, 2007 - Press conferences at the 2007 APS March Meeting

March 1, 2007 - Gene Sprouse Is New American Physical Society Editor-In-Chief.

January 31, 2007 - Thursday Night Football Physics is coming to Denver.

2006

October 28, 2006 - UT Arlington physicists question new synthetic NBA basketball.

October 27, 2006 - Physicists gather in Philadelphia for world's largest annual plasma conference.

October 13, 2006 - Controversy-plagued element 118 finally created.

October 6, 2006 - Physical Review Letter on Breaking Spaghetti Leads to 2006 Ig Nobel Award

October 3, 2006 - American Physical Society Fellow Shares in 2006 Physics Nobel

April 27, 2006 - APS Urges Public Debate of Potential Nuclear Weapons Use

January 31, 2006 - APS-Physics President Lauds White House Focus on Science Competitiveness

2005

October 4, 2005 - American Physical Society Fellows share in 2005 Physics Nobel

September 2, 2005 - First Blewett Scholarship to Help Women Returning to Physics Research Awarded

John Norris Bahcall, 1934-2005

August 4, 2005 - Physics Society President Says Intelligent Design Should Not be Taught as Science

May 20, 2005 - American Physical Society Announces PhysicsQuest Grand Prize Winners

March 11, 2005 - Participant Total for Grassroots Astrophysics Project Einstein@Home to Exceed 55,000 On Einstein’s Birthday

February 18, 2005 - Revolutionary Grassroots Astrophysics Project "Einstein@Home" Goes Live

February 11, 2005 - APS Board decries Hubble demise resulting from President's budget

January 10, 2005 - World Year of Physics 2005 Begins with Paris Conference

2004

December 15, 2004 - Bush’s Doe Secretary Nominee Good for Science, Say APS Leaders

November 22, 2004 - NASA's Moon-Mars initiative jeopardizes important science opportunities, according to American Physical Society Report.

October 15, 2004 - Major Missile Defense Study Published

October 4, 2004 - Two American Physical Society Fellows share in 2004 Physics Nobel

March 1, 2004 - Hydrogen Initiative Report from American Physical Society Panel Released

2003

December 17, 2003 - Free table-of-contents alerting service for American Physical Society journals

July 22, 2003 - Physics designed to shock - shock waves in medicine, exploration of the universe and the hunt for fusion power

July 15, 2003 - Boost-phase missile defense feasibility study released

July 7, 2003 - Boost-phase missile defense feasibility study to be released Tuesday, July 15, 2003

May 13, 2003 - DAMOP 2003 meeting - Atomic, molecular and optical physics

April 14, 2003 - Nobel Laureates and industry leaders petition President to save US science and technology

February 5, 2003 - Senior Los Alamos and University of California staff speak in support of continuing relationship

2002

December 20, 2002 - Questioned papers in Physical Review journals retracted